Director Maggie Betts is a first-time filmmaker and native New Yorker. Maggie is a longtime advocate for the rights of HIV positive women and children in sub-Saharan Africa. She has spent the past five years traveling throughout the continent as a volunteer and philanthropist for various United Nations organizations. Her specific interest in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) and the increasing potential to one day see an HIV free generation in Africa, is what inspired her to direct her first film, THE CARRIER.Maggie graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in English.